Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

Announcing the 2024 edition of the Paris Spring School for Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience

15-28 May 2024

https://parisneuro.ovh/

Applications opening imminently, deadline Feb 1st.

Boosts appreciated.

✨ Unser Rückblick auf die beliebtesten Posts 2023. Dieser ist vom 8. Februar ✨

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann hielt eine Büttenrede bei der Verleihung des „Ordens wider den tierischen Ernst“. Lustig war das nicht für alle.
👉 https://taz.de/Eine-kleine-Karnevalskritik/!5910967/

#tazBeste2023

2023 Headline of the Year nominee (February)

2023 Headline of the Year nominee (March)

Multiphoton imaging through 20 mm of air with the new Cousa objective.

This is a new type of objective: ultra long working distance, huge field-of-view, optimized for two-photon imaging.

And it fits on standard microscopes neuroscientists use for in vivo imaging (e.g., from Bruker, Thorlabs, Neurolabware, INSS, CoSys, etc.)!

The Cousa provides excellent data and even three-photon imaging over a huge field-of-view!

The paper has data from marmosets, tree shrews, both young and adult ferrets, intact pig eye, the first in vivo calcium imaging from mouse cochlear hair cells (!), beautiful input mapping / dendritic spine imaging, and more!

The paper was published just now: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-02098-1 It's open access. The Cousa objective can be purchased from a company that is being spun out of the lab: https://pacificoptica.com

Everything I don't like is woke

Live stream of a watering hole in a Namibian desert.

This might be the best thing.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQpim8?si=ewwBhA0eIBn8cCq4

COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

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Hungary’s Victor Orbán is trying to blackmail the EU into paying him EUR 30 billion to end his block on Ukraine aid.

I have an alternative solution: Hungary joins Russia, Ukraine joins the EU — everybody gets to live in their dream society.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-ukraine-aid-veto-eu-accession-unblock-frozen-fund-balasz-orban/

Yes, but... the search engine is all wrong: https://proton.me/blog/alternative-search-engines

Those trying to justify absurd Rwanda Bill overriding our courts & laws in the name of “Parliamentary sovereignty” are wrong. Parliament can only be sovereign *within a functioning legal & constitutional system* where courts can interpret law - which this Bill totally undermines.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1734579736196620745#m

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Call it what it is: a war on British multinational families.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-price-they-put-on-love?r=ga1yo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Happy to announce our new preprint on fast and light efficient volumetric voltage imaging with FLIPR microscopy – led by the outstanding @UrsLucasBoehm
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.568783

Am I missing something with the #ElginMarbles? Some British aristocrat stole some sculptures a couple of hundred years ago and Greece, quite reasonably, wants them back. What is the issue?? Seems like a no-brainer. It's never too late to atone for a shameful colonial past.

For all patch clampers out there Check out this beautiful preprint on reliable synaptic event detection. It works really well, with basically zero false positives! The project was led by Igor Delvendahl and Philipp O'Neill, and I also made a (small) contribution: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.02.565316v1

As part of a new report on digital advertising as a security threat published today by @johnnyryan and me (https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf), and previously unreported:

We reveal 'Patternz', a global mass surveillance system that harvests digital advertising data on behalf of 'national security agencies'.

Patternz is operated by a company based in Israel and/or Singapore. It claims to collect data about 5 billion users from 87 ad exchanges and SSPs via 6 data centers around the world.

Thread:

Come see us at #sfn2023 #sfn #sfn23 https://sites.google.com/internationalbrainlab.org/iblsfn23/

Björn Höcke ist und bleibt ein Nazi. Das sagt auch die Hamburger Staatsanwaltschaft. 👉 https://taz.de/Verfahren-wegen-Beleidigung-eingestellt/!5968418/